Opening weekend hours

Does anyone know why the park was/is only open until 8pm yesterday and today? I'm not at the park but was just curious.

I reckon it's due to staffing issues. In other words, let's not burn out a bunch of new employees with 12-14 hour shifts on the first weekend. Low and slow.
Just my guess. I wasn't there either, so it can't possibly affect me. (Although I considered driving up there today just to see construction with my own eyes. Turns out it might not have been a bad choice.)

There's plenty of days coming up when the park also closes at eight. Don't get so focused on just this weekend. Staffing and crowd levels have a lot to do with it.

As long as Surf Lounge stays open late, I'm totally fine with the park closing at 8.
And, Pete will probably be there too!

I was there but left by 6:30 because the kids have school tomorrow and just got home from a camping trip this morning, hubby works in the morning. I'm sure many people today went up for just a taste and not a full day and that's what the schedule was probably based on.

I only asked because in the past, opening weekend always closed at 10 but the week days were open til 8.

I wasn't there this weekend because of Finals coming up, but plan to be there next weekend. Hopefully the weather is nice and there's a good size crowd. I don't care if they are open till 8 pm because that works perfectly with my work schedule.

The website originally stated they would be open until 10 PM on Saturday, but the week before it changed to 8 PM, which I assumed was because of the forecast. The rain held off much of Saturday but did start to pour just after 8 PM when we got off the last ride of Valravyn, so good timing. But then we were surprised how many things were closed; rides, coke freestyle locations, various food locations. I was looking forward to trying some of the new meal deal items, such as the wraps from CJ's, mac and cheese bowls, shredded chicken/beef/pork sandwiches, but none of that was available. I'm not sure if it was staffing problems or just poor planning. It does look like line jumping is already a problem this year. People, please speak up when you see it because it seems the more they get away with it, the more it increases. Here's hoping things go a little better this coming weekend.

I nearly had to catch hands with someone at Kings Island because I called them out for line jumping.

I tried that at Magic Mountain once, but the other 15 people in his group cut in front of everyone anyways.

CP Maverick said:

I tried that at Magic Mountain once, but the other 15 people in his group cut in front of everyone anyways.

I had an incident at Carowinds a couple years ago where the older of a group of teen to twentysomethings were cutting in front of everyone in the Fast Lane line and stopping to take selfies when they were at the top, so proud of themselves. When they tried it a second time I went to an employee on the platform and informed him. He confirmed from others in the front of the line what I was saying was true and they were made to leave the line, but not before threatening violence at me. I didn't flinch and told them to bring it on. They didn't. I will not tolerate it at all this year. To see it happen so blatantly already is just putting me on the defensive, though I should be able to relax in line instead of making a human barricade to prevent these losers from passing.

That is the problem right there. Being told to leave the line is hardly a deterent at all.

Not only is it not a deterrent since they didn't bother to wait in line at all, they're supposed to be removed from the park. And on top of that threatening physical violence to another guest for pointing it out to an employee should get them arrested and charged for disorderly conduct at the least. The park needs to take care of this problem.

In my experience this is rare at CP, but pretty commonplace at SFGA which is one reason why we drive past it on our way to CP and don't stop.